Dorothy Black

SERIES

	Horizon - 2005 1-10 11-22 23-32
	Sigh - 2001
	Rasa - 2001
	Anima - 2001
	Civil Twilight -2000 1-20 21-40 41-60 61-80 81-100 101-107
	Blue Alpha - 1999 1-10 11-20
	Ethereal Eddies - 1998
	Euphoria - 1998
	Composition - 1996
	Passion - 1995
	Melancholy - 1995
	Su - 1994 12-23

Individual Works

Ceramic Urns - 2004
     106-128
     129-142
     143-149
     152-160
     161-163

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Contact Dorothy Black

I begin my paintings by conceptualizing with the use of collage and pastel drawing together to make preliminary sketches. This method allows me to explore the juxtaposing of diverse and unrelated images in order to allow new meaning to surface.

My paintings serve as a means to unify the images by saturation of color, to create the illusion of depth and movement by the use of the painting process.

In a similar way that a theater stage conjures up the notion of a real place, the suggestive images in my paintings are meant to evoke a personal, imaginary place. Color, space and scale work together to heighten the sense of drama and mystery.

Through this duality of images side by side and floating in space as mysterious, suggestive images I want to create a resonance similar to the picture evoked by the Biblical phrase:

"Through a glass darkly, but then face to face."